Prize Winners Named for “Dream, Create, Liberate” Afrofuturist Art Publication

We are thrilled to announce the winners of our Dream, Create, Liberate: A Future Without Family Policing call for submissions. We asked artists to lead our collective movement with radical imagination, and we are thankful for everyone who submitted to our first creative publication! This was a leap of faith and so many excellent artists answered the call. 

 

Poetry, Selected by Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton

Ryan Jafar Artes, Grand Prize Winner

Jolie Venettine Brownell Virgile, Prize Winner 

River 瑩瑩 Dandelion, Prize Winner

 

Short Fiction, Selected by Josie Pickens

Jessyka Linton, Grand Prize Winner

Jacqueline Peoples, Prize Winner

Amaka Okoro, Prize Winner

 

Visual Art, Selected by Adam Pendleton 

Moses Ojo, Grand Prize Winner

Chavonté Wright, Prize Winner

Nadeem Justice, Prize Winner

 

Dream, Create, Liberate is our first creative publication, and it may be one of our most revolutionary. The digital publication will launch next Wednesday on Juneteenth. 

 

We want to share a special thank you to our judges, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, Josie Pickens, and Adam Pendleton for their expertise in selecting our prize-winning submissions. Stay tuned for the digital release next week on our website. 

 

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